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When Panthers Roared - The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball (Hardcover)
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When Panthers Roared - The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball (Hardcover)
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From 1889 to 1964, the Fort Worth Panthers--unofficially nicknamed
and always known as the Cats--represented the essence of baseball
in America. In their early seasons they reflected the outraged
pride of the South and West in a bitter rivalry with the
northeastern baseball powers, a regional disaffection whose roots
stretched back to the Civil War. (The first official baseball game
in Texas was played just after the war; the competing Texas teams
were nicknamed the Stonewall Jacksons and the R. E. Lees). The Cats
franchise was finally dissolved when major league baseball
completed its national expansion by placing a team in nearby
Arlington.
In between, the Cats set professional sports records that have
never been equaled, including winning the Texas League title six
years in a row and establishing themselves as perhaps the most
famous minor league team in baseball history. From vintage Panthers
such as power-hitting first baseman Clarence "Big Boy" Kraft and
colorful Hall-of-Fame manager Rogers Hornsby to more modern Cats
heroes such as Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, and Maury Wills, Fort
Worth and the baseball-obsessed Southwest formed a high profile
partnership that even survived a season when the spectator stands
burned one day and the playing field was flooded a week later. Cats
fans wouldn't be denied; they sat around the field on folding
chairs, and no games were postponed.
Partially oral history, "When Panthers Roared" includes interviews
with baseball greats Hank Aaron, Wally Moon, Dick Williams, Maury
Wills, and co-author Bobby Bragan. Williams and Wills were Cats
mainstays; Bragan managed the team during its great post-WW II
years when baseball guru Branch Rickey made Fort Worth part of the
Brooklyn Dodger farm system and stocked it with his finest young
athletes.
But during the Cats heyday, there were just sixteen major league
teams who played out of ten U.S. cities. "When Panthers Roared"
captures the excitement and pride the minor-league Cats brought to
Texas and the Southwest. It was a time when, Bobby Bragan insists,
"any man lucky enough to be a Fort Worth Cat was as proud of that
as he would have been to play for the New York Yankees."
"When Panthers Roared" is lavishly illustrated through the
cooperation of Mark Presswood, whose sports collection features
Cats memorabilia. Additional short interviews feature the late Joe
DiMaggio, Vincent Devaney, and Leo Durocher.
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